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ANCIENT HISTORY: RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS Vol. 41–44 2011–2014 Transforming Sparta: New Approaches to the Study of Spartan Society The Position of Attic Women in Democratic Athens An Unforgotten Episode in the Life of Caesar Women Historians of Ancient Greece and Rome Imaginations of Ancient Rome in 19th Century Historical Novels The Graves of Gallipoli: ‘Mad Franks’ in Charles Bean’s own Copy of The Anzac Book Book Reviews MACQUARIE ANCIENT HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANCIENT HISTORY: RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS Vol. 41–44 2011–2014 MACQUARIE ANCIENT HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANCIENT HISTORY: RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS A publication of the Macquarie Ancient History Association Macquarie University Editor: Dr J. Lea Beness Editorial Board: Dr Peter Brennan (University of Sydney), Associate Professor Tom Hillard (Macquarie University), Hugh Lindsay (University of Newcastle), Associate Professor Boyo Ockinga (Macquarie University), Associate Professor Iain Spence (University of New England) Reviews Editor: Reviews Assistant Editorial Assistants: Dr C.E.V. Nixon Editor: Anne Irish Dr Peter Keegan Ann Nixon All articles in this journal are peer reviewed. Copyright 2011–2014, Published 2015 Macquarie Ancient History Association Published by the Macquarie Ancient History Association Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under copyright law, no part of this publication shall be reproduced by any process without written permission of the owners of the copyright. Request for such permission should be directed to the editor of the journal. Ancient History: Resources for Teachers ISSN 1032 3686 CONTENTS Stephen Hodkinson Transforming Sparta: New Approaches to 1 The Study of Spartan Society David M. Pritchard The Position of Attic Women in Democratic 43 Athens Doug Kelly An Unforgotten Episode in the Life of 66 Caesar Ian Plant Women Historians of Ancient Greece and 77 Rome Tom Stevenson Imaginations of Ancient Rome in 19th 93 Century Historical Novels Samuel N.C. Lieu The Graves Of Gallipoli: ‘Mad Franks’ in 127 Charles Bean’s own Copy of The Anzac Book REVIEWS Margaret Sampson Peter Charles Hoffer, Clio among the 147 Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities Alexander Toomey Edward M. Anson, Alexander the Great: 150 Westcott Themes and Issues Peter Keegan Alison E. and M.G.L. Cooley, Pompeii and 157 Herculaneum: a Sourcebook, 2nd ed. Subscriptions within Australia: $40.00 (incl. GST) Overseas Subscription: AUD 45.00 (incl. postage) Back volumes are available. Prices on request. Cheques should be made payable to Macquarie University (ABN 90 952 801 237) Subscriptions and all orders should be directed to The Secretary Macquarie Ancient History Association Ancient History/Faculty of Arts Macquarie University NSW 2109 FAX 02 - 9850 8240 Editorial correspondence should be directed to The Editor Ancient History: Resources for Teachers Ancient History/Faculty of Arts Macquarie University NSW 2109 FAX 02 - 9850 8240 Email: [email protected] The best efforts have been made to trace all rights holders with regard to images used in order that they might be appropriately credited. Please contact the editor if you believe any images have been used without the appropriate credit. Notes on Contributors Stephen Hodkinson is Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies at the University of Nottingham. In 2010 he was made an Honorary Citizen of modern Sparti for his contributions to Spartan history. David M. Pritchard is a Senior Lecturer in Greek History at the University of Queensland. In 2015 he is also a Research Fellow in Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Studies. Doug Kelly is a retired Senior Lecturer from the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the Australian National University. Ian Plant is a Senior Lecturer and currently the Head of Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. Tom Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland. Samuel N.C. Lieu is Inaugural Distinguished Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University. TRANSFORMING SPARTA: NEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF SPARTAN SOCIETY Stephen Hodkinson The University of Nottingham his article started life as a talk to the UK Joint Association of Classical TTeachers, Ancient History INSET day, at University College, London in September 2012. I am grateful to the editor for inviting me to update and adapt it for the use of teachers and students of Ancient History in New South Wales.1 My article focuses upon a number of topics central to the NSW Ancient History Stage 6 Syllabus Part II: ‘Ancient Societies’, Option I ‘Greece: Spartan society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC’. Some of the material on Spartan life may also be useful background for Part IV: ‘Historical Periods’, Option G ‘Greece: The development of the Greek world 800 – 500 BC’, section 2 ‘Athens and Sparta’ (which embraces the emergence and development of the polis in Sparta). My article starts with the words ‘Transforming Sparta’; and its main purpose is to communicate and analyse a number of radical new approaches which have transformed academic understandings of Spartan society over the last generation. The article has three parts. Part 1 outlines how Spartan historical studies have developed since World War II and why they are currently in an exciting state of debate. It also discusses the academic and institutional context of the transformation of Spartan studies. Part 2 (the longest part) examines the details of the radical new understandings of classical Sparta mentioned above, focussing on new approaches to the ancient literary sources and on new insights into diverse aspects of Spartan society. Finally, in Part 3, I look at a further new and growing feature of Spartan studies which can enliven teaching and learning in the classroom: the study of modern receptions of Sparta and especially its role in 21st-century popular culture. I conclude with a few words about the recent graphic novel Three (2014), the product of collaboration between a comics author and an academic aimed at creating an authentic fictional representation of Spartan society. 1 It also gives me great pleasure to publish this article in a journal graced by many distinguished Australian ancient historians, in particular by the eminent Spartan expert Douglas Kelly, who contributed a myth-busting article on Sparta to one of the journal’s earliest issues (Kelly 1972/1982). A number of the radical ideas about the character of Spartiate daily life suggested in section 2.4 below have their origins in his revisionist article on Spartan policy-making in the Australian academic journal Antichthon (Kelly 1981), which greatly influenced my thinking as an early career scholar. 2 Hodkinson: Transforming Sparta: New Approaches The NSW HSC examiners regularly report that ‘Spartan Society’ is one of the most popular options within the Ancient History paper. That popularity and enthusiasm are fully matched within the 21st-century academy. 1. The transformation of Spartan studies since WWII The current state of Spartan studies is nicely summarised in Nigel Kennell’s recent book, Spartans: A New History (2010), which briefly incorporates many of the new approaches into its survey of Spartan history. In recent years … the traditional view of Sparta has come under increasingly intense scrutiny as historians and archaeologists apply new techniques, perspectives, and even occasionally new pieces of evidence … As a result, the long-standing consensus over the fundamental nature of Spartan society has begun to crumble. In its place, intense debate has arisen over each and every facet of what we thought we knew about Sparta and the Spartans … In other words, Sparta is “hot.” But the ferment in Spartan scholarship has a downside. In no other area of ancient Greek history is there a greater gulf between the common conception of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute (Kennell 2010, 2). How has this intense and radical debate come to develop? The reasons go beyond individual scholarly choices and are rooted in 20th-century political history and in changes within the contemporary academy. 1.1 ‘Theme park’ images The story begins with the legacy of Sparta’s role during the Third Reich, when many Nazi leaders and ideologues appropriated Sparta as a charter for their educational, social and military policies, with the support of certain leading German classical scholars (Losemann 2012; Roche 2012; 2013, chs 8–9). In the generation after World War II, Sparta’s Nazi associations made it an uncomfortable, even a taboo, subject within Western European scholarship, transforming a previously flourishing field into an academic wasteland. Not until the late 1960s was there a partial revival of interest, primarily in Britain, where short books on Sparta were published by scholars such as A.H.M. Jones (1967) and W.G. Forrest (1968). Despite this mini-revival, serious research on Sparta remained merely an occasional activity. Until the mid-1980s most books were one-off works by senior scholars who, having already made their reputations on other topics, briefly turned their attention to Sparta before moving on to pastures new. It is unsurprising that the depictions of Spartan society in such works were often Ancient History 41–44 2011–2014 3 superficial and repeated a standard set of somewhat simplistic ‘theme park’ images. The quotations below give a couple of representative examples: The famous discipline of the Spartans … is undoubtedly very ancient fundamentally and has close analogies with the customs of many primitive warrior tribes throughout the world (Jones 1967, 34). … both Spartan and Kretan customs were inherited from their common tribal past … all these had been handed down through the generations as have similar institutions among the Masai in Kenya, the Zulus or the Red Indians (Forrest 1968, 53). Note the warrior imagery, the picture of an unchanging society whose institutions were primitive survivals, and the overall impression of peculiarity, reinforced by comparative associations with ‘primitive warrior tribes’.
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    Dinner in Utopia: Why did Plato Propose “Amazing and Frightening” Meals in Common? Michael Jackson & Damian Grace UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Citation: Jackson & Grace, “Dinner in Utopia: Why did Plato Propose ‘Amazing and Frightening’ Meals in Common?”, Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, 2nd series, no. 3, 2014, pp. 9-26 <http://ler.letras.up.pt > ISSN 1646-4729. “Let one open any book of history, from Herodotus to our own day, and he will see that, without even excepting conspiracies, not a single great event has occurred which has not been conceived, prepared, and carried out at a feast,” so said Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the Philosopher in the Kitchen (1981[1825]: 54). Scholars of course know the faculty club and the conference dinner, where many events have been planned. While Plato consistently recommended common meals, syssitia (literally “eating together”), and Aristotle accepted this one feature of Plato’s political program, their recommendations of these public meals as political practices have been treated in a perfunctory manner, limited to military purposes (e.g., Finer 1997: 338 and de Mesquita et al., 2004: 174). In later utopian theory and practice, Thomas More, Tomasso Campanella and William Morris, among other utopian theorists, incorporated such meals, as have utopian communities from Oenida to the Kibbutzim, all to little comment. Insofar as the seed for the practice is found in Plato, a close study of his recommendation of common meals enhances our understanding of what such meals can offer. Why in The Laws (780a-d) did Plato recommend meals in common and why did he say that they were “amazing” and “frightening,” and perhaps not to be mentioned?1 To better understand Plato’s approach to syssitia this essay summarizes common meals in the context of classical Greece, examines Plato’s discussion of political dining, emphasizes the role of women in common meals in Plato’s political theory, considers the role of these meals in the second-best ideal commonwealth of the Laws, and draws several conclusions.